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May 9, 1996

MEDIA ADVISORY
Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries

A forum on research and technology advances in digital
libraries will be held at the Library of Congress, Mumford Room,
Sixth Floor, Madison Building May 13-15. The forum is sponsored by
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The National Library of Medicine,
the IEEE Computer Society (Data Engineering TC and Digital
Libraries TF, and the Library of Congress.

The forum is intended to bring together researchers from
universities, industry, and government to discuss evolving research
issues and applications in digital libraries. It will feature
research papers, panels, exhibits, prototypes, and applications of
digital libraries in science and industry. The focus of the panels
will be on issues related to global digital libraries for
environmental monitoring, law, medicine, and electronic commerce.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will deliver
welcoming remarks on Monday, May 13 at 1:15 p.m. Sen. Bob Kerrey
(D) of Nebraska will address the group at a banquet in the Great
Hall of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building Tuesday, May 14, at
7:30 p.m.